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Indian Writers in Council. Proceedings of the First All-India Writers' Conference (Jaipur 1945)

1947

N. the many public lectures arranged under its auspices the personality of the National President the late Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore the tireless energy and idealism of the Founder these had given the India Centre a certain status in the literary world. [...] Shrimati Sarojini Naidu then one of the Vice-Presidents of the India Centre in the course of her message to the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Centre held in March 1938 remarked : " I think that during the year the P.E. [...] Now at last in the calmer and cooler atmosphere of Jaipur it would be possible—or so we thought—to take stock of things to lick the wounds that the human spirit had sustained in the course of the war years and to affirm that first things must ever be first that economic values were not the whole of life—not even the dominant partner of life—and that the soul of man was is and ever must be fre [...] A whole rich evening at Amber with its courts and mirrors and hanging gardens and ineffable silences—an hour or so at the Observatory—an adventure of discovery to the Hawa Mahal the wonder palace of the Winds—a round of visits covering the Maharaja's College the Albert Hall and Museum and the Mubarak Mahal—and perhaps a visit to the bazaar where Jaipur saris and Jaipur ornamented vases captu [...] In the circumstances; the discussion on " The Development of the Indian Literatures as a Uniting Force " initiated on the afternoon of the first day occupied a key position in the Conference.
humanities general
Pages
311
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145743
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i K. R. Iyengar view
Frontmatter
i-xxiv K. R. Iyengar view
Part I. First Day: Saturday 20th October 1945
1-60 K. R. Iyengar view
Part II. Second Day: Sunday 21st October 1945
61-176 K. R. Iyengar view
Part III. Third Day: Monday. 22nd October 1948
177-240 K. R. Iyengar view
Part IV. Papers Submitted to the All-India Writers' Conference Jaipur
241-274 K. R. Iyengar view
Appendixes
275-284 K. R. Iyengar view
Backmatter
i-ii K. R. Iyengar view

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